The games library

A suite of mathematical games designed to support and engage.

Games library

Cheese planet

Stack the cheese bricks in ascending order. Be quick before the cheese rots away.

Mathematical aim: number.

Ordering whole numbers
Up to hundreds of millions

Octopushy

Use your friendly Octopus to herd the fish into a skeleton or a castle to reach a total.

Mathematical aim: addition.

Adding whole numbers
Place value method (split method)
Add to thousands

Ants' picnic

Can you send the right number of ants to capture food for the nest? Test your multiplication and addition skills but beware of the echidna!

Mathematical aim: multiplication.

Multiplication: single digits, tens and hundreds
Addition of multiples

PopUp paintbook

Colour fractions to paint your own pop-up book.

Mathematical aim: fractions.

Fractions of a shape
Fractions of a group

Box ladders

Rescue the stranded numbles by dragging fraction, decimal and percentage ladders.

Mathematical aim: fractions, decimals, percentages.

Size of proper fractions
Size of simple decimals (one decimal place)
Size of simple percentages

Plushie cannon

Shoot the plushie toys from the cannon to hit the target. Can you find the pattern?

Mathematical aim: patterns.

Number patterns: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
Positive whole numbers

Shape sketch

Draw shapes to find out if you are an 'excellent' artist. Work fast to beat the clock!

Mathematical aim: two-dimensional shapes.

Angles in degrees
2D shapes: triangles, quadrilaterals, rectangles, squares, rhombuses, parallelograms
Geometrical terms: perpendicular, right-angle, acute, obtuse, reflex, isosceles, equilateral, regular

3D block builder

Can you picture things in 3D? Use blocks to build objects from their side, top and front views.

Mathematical aim: three-dimensional objects

3D objects
Constructing from views

Floaty farms

Attract sheep to your farm by building a field that has the right length of fence. Beware, you have a limited amount of grass.

Mathematical aim: perimeter.

Comparing area to perimeter

Floaty fences

Fence in the right amount of land to attract sheep.

Mathematical aim: area.

Comparing perimeter to area

Meltoids

Create 3D blocks out of goo to exactly match the volume of the moulds.

Mathematical aim: volume.

Concept of volume in cubic units

Giftbox balance

Unwrap your gifts by finding their mass on a balance beam.

Mathematical aim: mass.

Mass in grams, kilograms, tonnes
Decimal notation

Time spring

Set the alarm clocks to wake up the packages so that they get to the delivery point on time.

Mathematical aim: time.

Analog clocks
Time in 5, 10 and 15 minute blocks
Duration

World of WormCraft

The worm is hungry. Follow the directions to help him find his apples and collect his funny hats.

Mathematical aim: direction.

Arrows
Compass (N-E-S-W)
Grid (e.g. E6)

Chance invaders

The bubbles are invading! Set the cannon to shoot the bubbles before they land.

Mathematical aim: probability.

Likelihood
Proportions

Graph it

Turn data tables into colourful graphs before time runs out.

Mathematical aim: data.

Picture graphs (pictograms)
Column graphs (bar charts)
Sector graphs (pie charts)
Line graphs
Scale 1-to-1 and 1-to-many

Flocker

Help the farmer line up his sheep in order. Beware, some of them are negative and some are even from Ancient Rome.

Mathematical aim: number.

Order numbers
Positive and negative whole numbers
Roman numerals

Operation caterpillar

Turn caterpillars into butterflies by filling in the missing part of the equation.

Mathematical aim: number sentences.

Numeric equations
Postive whole numbers only
Order of operations including brackets

Blob fractions

$Blob fractions$

Use fractions to split the blobs into the correct sizes to balance the weight.

Mathematical aim: fractions.

Simple fractions of whole numbers

Replicons

Help the replicons on their journey by building chains of decimals to cross the pits.

Mathematical aim: decimals.

Number line
Count by tenths (decimal)
Multipy simple decimals by whole numbers

Mystery menagerie

Signal the space ship by adding the right animals to your farm. Can you work out what each animal is worth?

Mathematical aim: patterns and algebra.

Symbols for numbers
Number sentences
Whole positive numbers only
Finding values of unknowns

Peanut bridge

Rotate and resize shapes to plug the holes in the bridge so that the elephants can reach the peanuts.

Mathematical aim: transformations.

Enlargement
Rotation
Two dimensional shapes

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